Protecting honest elections & promoting voter participation

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What is Ranked Choice Voting?

Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV), also called Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV), is a complex election process where voters can rank multiple candidates for a single office.

Election Date Consolidation

All of the research backs up common sense: combining local elections with state and national elections increases voter participation. And lots of people claim to want that—so why doesn’t it happen? The answer is that insiders benefit from weird election dates that lead to low voter turnout.

Rank MI Vote loss was a big deal

Ranked-choice voting advocates pushed to make Michigan the largest RCV experiment ever, despite the system only being used at far smaller scales and showing problems elsewhere.

Are RCV donors done?

Voters can be thankful if some of the biggest donors are moving on from RCV.

"Rank MI Vote" surrenders in Michigan

A campaign to bring ranked-choice voting to Michigan has failed.

Will New Yorkers vote to align local and federal election dates?

New York City’s municipal elections will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. While early voting numbers are up due to the polarizing nature of the mayoral race, low turnout is always a concern.

County clerks unanimously oppose ranked-choice voting

The Michigan Association of County Clerks has come out again the RCV ballot measure in Michigan.

RCV is just one flavor of “election reform”

There are several other proposed reforms in competition with RCV.

School board elections shouldn’t be separate

There doesn’t seem to be any question whether moving school board elections on-cycle with state and federal elections will dramatically increase turnout and provide greater voter input and accountability for this critical government service.

Bipartisan Election Reform: Hold local, state and federal elections together

I’m happy that Save Our States is expanding to address other areas of election policy.

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